Facing Bilingual Education: Kindergarten Teachers' Attitudes, Strategies and Challenges

Autor/inn/en	Schwartz, Mila; Mor-Sommerfeld, Aura; Leikin, Mark
Titel	Facing Bilingual Education: Kindergarten Teachers' Attitudes, Strategies and Challenges
Quelle	In: Language Awareness, 19 (2010) 3, S.187-203 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-8416
Schlagwörter	Semitic Languages; Bilingual Education; Foreign Countries; Kindergarten; Russian; Immigrants; Teaching Methods; Bilingualism; Language Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Role; Ethnography; Observation; Interviews; Educational Policy; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Ausland; Russisch; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bilingualismus; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lehrerverhalten; Lehrerrolle; Ethnografie; Beobachtung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	This article examines how majority-language teachers coping with additive education view their roles in a bilingual framework, how they perceive issues of culture and language in young bilingual children, and how they understand the term "bilingual education" in an L2 non-additive context. The study has been conducted in the context of pre-school bilingual education of second generation Russian-Hebrew speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel. Using an ethnographic approach comprising observation, interviews and life histories, a set of behaviours and beliefs has been revealed, enabling us to compare approaches in two bilingual--Russian-Hebrew--kindergartens. This is discussed at both the micro- (teachers' reports) and the macro- (Israeli language and educational policies) level. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10